When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
